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Show AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS i ' In the early clays of flying-, if our memory serves us correctly, cor-rectly, most persons involved in airplane accidents were killed kill-ed outright. At least, a very large percentage were. It was a little surprising, therefore, to read a recent report which states that during the last few years only one out of seven persons involved in airplane crashes was fatally hurt. Most surprising still is the statement that all those involved in-volved in air accidents 60 per cent receive no injury at all. About 15 per cent were killed, 10 per cent were seriously injured in-jured and 15 percent were only slightly hurt. Causes of accidents have been studied, resulting in the conclusion that about 57 per cent were due to errors by pilots; pi-lots; structural failures in planes caused a little more than 9 per cent, motor failures 17 per cent, while miscellaneous and doubtful causes account for the remainder. During the three-year period covered by the report there was a total of 2,994 accidents recorded, involving 9,551 persons, per-sons, of whom 1,413 were killed, 947 were severely injured, 1,366 received minor injuries and 5,805 were unhurt. o |